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Attacks and Disasters Happen Across all Verticals, and They Often Cross IT, OT, and Physical Infrastructure. So How Does it Make Sense to Have a Security Strategy that Only Protects IT?

Below are a few examples of attacks and disasters that happened across IT, Operational Technology (OT), and Physical Assets across many different verticals. Most of these are recent, but one of them was 30-years ago and most people still remember it.

Electrical Substation

The attack began just before 1 am on April 16 last year, when someone slipped into an underground vault not far from a busy freeway and cut telephone cables not far from San Jose, CA. Within 1/2 hour, snipers opened fire on an outlying electrical substation. Shooting for 19 minutes, they surgically knocked out 17 giant transformers that funnel power to a nearby metropolis. A minute before police arrived, the shooters disappeared into the night. Power disruption was avoided by rerouting power from other stations, but the station remained closed for 27 days for repairs. Other Utilities Substations that have experienced trouble are: Melbourne, Australia, Scarborough, Ontario and Warren, Minnesota to name a few.read more

“Attacks and disasters don’t happen in technology silos, they happen across IT, OT, and Physical Assets.”—Jasvir Gill
Founder and CEO, Alert Enterprise!
Former Founder and CEO of Virsa Systems (Acquired by SAP)

AlertEnterprise is utilized by energy, oil and gas, airports, federal, chemical, enterprise customers and more. We are recognized by top industry analysts as a technology innovator because our software uniquely detects, mitigates, and in many cases stops threats and disasters across IT, OT, and Physical Assets.read more

One of the most common mistakes in the view of integrating physical and IT security is not recognizing how a company’s charter impacts security in the company.

For example, take the charter of a software company.

What is the charter of a Software Development Company?

In a software development company programmers develop software that the company sells. This is the core function of the organization, and aligns with the company charter. The software development group will have a variety of tools used in software development, such as development interfaces, test and development servers, and other tools to help build products for the company.read more

Industries such as oil and gas, chemicals, transportation, utilities and even federal facilities are battling to address complex threats against critical infrastructures, which have grown significantly in the past few years. Addressing security in silos of IT and OT has become their prime focus. AlertEnterprise security software addresses complex threats that cross the security silos such as IT, OT, and SCADA/ICS. By doing so, the software delivers improved operational reliability, protecting operating assets and responding more quickly to a range of vulnerabilities and persistent threats by enabling enterprises to analyze and track security events in a broader business context, whether from cyber, physical or insider sources.read more